According to The San Francisco Chronicle in 2005, "Mobile dating is the next awash leap in communications socializing." Fresh than 3.6 million cell phone users logged into mobile dating Christian Singles sites in March 2007, with most users falling in the under 35 age range.

Researchers at MIT and Harvard have found that "people who had had a arranged to interact with each other (by clone only) on a virtual tour of a museum subsequently had exceeding successful face-to-face meetings than people who had viewed only profiles."